Watch the Flaming Lips on "The Colbert Report", Hear the New Album

Plus crazy deluxe edition details

Last week, we told you that the Flaming Lips would appear in all their splendor on "The Colbert Report". Last night, that meeting of the minds happened. Stephen Colbert interviewed frontman Wayne Coyne, needling him for the "downer" lyrics to "Do You Realize??" and offering such faux-conservative gems as: "It's sounds to me, when I listen to your music, like you're trying to expand my mind. And I don't change my mind for anyone." For his part, Coyne pulled off the Herculean feat of somehow coming across as sincere and affable on in the presence of Stephen Colbert.

After the interview, the band played a fiery, noised-up rendition of the new psych jam "Convinced of the Hex", from the Lips' forthcoming album Embryonic. You can watch the interview here and the performance here.

Now that the show's on the books, the Colbert Nation website is streaming Embryonic in its entirety. The album will remain on the site until next Monday. It isn't due in stores until October 13 via Warner Bros.

More Embryonic news: As is the fashion now, the band will release the album in multiple different configurations. There's a standard CD as well as a double disc package with the entire album on DVD audio on the second disc, plus a hardcover book. There's also a gatefold vinyl package with the album on two colored vinyl LPs (one blue, one yellow), with the album also included on CD in the package.

And then there's the biggest one yet: If you buy the direct-to-consumer package from the band's website, you'll get two CDs, one high-res audio DVD, and an exclusive artwork lithograph... all in a custom "fur" box. Because the only thing that could make that album cover even more disturbing is seeing it all covered in fake fur. (P.S. Whoa... is that a vagina we see there?) A "limited number" of the lithographs will be autographed by the band.

There will also be what a press release calls the "super MEGA Deluxe vinyl edition." Hard to say how this thing could get any more deluxe. Maybe the LPs themselves will be covered in fur?

In other Lips news, they plan to stage another of their "March of 1,000 Flaming Skeletons" Halloween Parades in downtown Oklahoma City next month. Happy Flaming Lips fans will march through the city dressed as skeletons and carrying flaming torches, which must be something to see. This year, it'll go down October 24 in Oklahoma City's Bricktown District; more info can be found here. The band will also play "The Tonight Show With Conan O'Brien" on October 13, the night of Embryonic's release, and they'll play a New Year's Eve show in Oklahoma City.